PASS in Mexico: Champeta Punk

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Champeta Punk will be residents of the Pan African Space Station LIVE from Mexico City from 31 October – 5 November (no broadcast on Wednesday 1 November due to Dia de los Muertos/Day of the Dead), everyday from 16:00 – 20:00 (CDT). Tune in via www.panafricanspacestation.org.za

Champeta Punk is a party collective based in Mexico City and Bogotá. Started in 2013 by two Colombians living in Mexico City, David Rincon and Fabian Vega, the collective’s research interest is on the legacy of Champeta music.

Their programme, titled K-Z  (Ka-Zeta/Caseta) RADIONÁUTICA, is a tribute to audio and visual culture in Colombian Picó from the ‘70s to the ‘90s. The collective will be in conversation with actors from the champeta scene in both Mexico and Bogota, and will play a selection of music by traditional casetas and picós from the Colombian Caribbean coast.

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PASS in Mexico: Cooperativa Cráter Invertido

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FEMALE EJACULATION WORKSHOP – Live on PASS

(read Spanish version below) with Diana J. Torres aka Pornoterrorista and guests, and with sound manipulations by Constanza Piña THU Oct 19, 21:30 local time Mexico City For centuries medical science has been the enemy of of the body and sexuality of women, silencing anatomic realities and pathologizing everything that doesn’t fit in the phallocratic and heteronormative, binary division of gender roles. This workshop aims at revealing one of the most controversial aspects of vaginas: their ejaculation. And at the …  ( continue reading

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PASS in Mexico: Eva Munyiri

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PASS landing at Museo Tamayo, Mexico City

From 4 October – 26 November 2017, the Pan African Space Station (PASS)  broadcast LIVE from Museo Tamayo, Mexico City. For 8 weeks, the PASS studio functioned as “ecole du soir” (evening school) – a meeting place, a classroom, and laboratory where different worlds converged. The radio programming explored the ancient supercontinent of Gondwana, contemporary South Atlantic exchanges and Afro-Mexican cultures – a public research platform toward a forthcoming edition of the Chimurenga Chronic on these themes. It also served as a …  ( continue reading

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PASS in Mexico: Radio Ñuu Kaan

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PASS in Mexico: Radio Zapote

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PASS in Mexico: Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz

Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz will be a resident of the Pan African Space Station LIVE from Mexico City from 18 – 22 October, everyday from 16:00 – 20:00 (CDT). Tune in via www.panafricanspacestation.org.za Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz is a Bolivian-German philosopher, writer and editor who lives in Rio de Janeiro. He works as a curator and cultural critic, having published essays focusing on colonial history, aesthetic philosophy, the political economy of so-called ‘active’ substances, and the production of subjectivity. For PASS …  ( continue reading

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PASS in Mexico: Casa Hankili So Africa

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PASS in Mexico: Lagartijas tiradas al sol

Lagartijas tiradas al sol will be residents of the Pan African Space Station LIVE from Mexico City from 15 – 19 November, everyday from 16:00 – 20:00 (CDT). Tune in via www.panafricanspacestation.org.za Lagartijas tiradas al sol is a performance arts collective founded in 2003 directed by Luisa Pardo and Gabino Rodríguez. Their improvisatory projects, based primarily on autobiographical, historical and social research, are aimed and providing/ deconstructing meaning, and articulating/unraveling everyday practices of work and life.  For PASS in Mexico, Lagartijas tiradas al sol will create …  ( continue reading

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